can be a PITA, beauty of SD is it is a bootable backup, restore not needed, disconnect the failed drive and boot to the spare. Kind of like RAID except I think better, if u mess up both drives are messed up in RAID but with SD and daily backups ( only changed files) u can mess up and restore a single file if needed or boot to the spare drive.
These online backup schemes are very interesting, using one for my Son's laptop. Time will tell if he ever needs it and he set it up properly. fp At 10:45 AM 3/9/2011, Stan Zaske Poked the stick with: >That's good that it works out for you. Must be rocket science because I've >never once been successful at backing up and restoring a Windows >installation once in all the years I've been doing this. Not once. > > >On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:52:00 -0600, FORC5 <[email protected]> wrote: > >>tapes did suck but u are wrong. >>Standby disk has saved me numerous times from F ups and virus. >>Nothing beats a fully bootable backup if a drive fails. Also supports >>drive pooling. >> >>http://www.standbydisk.com/Products/SD/index.html >> >>fp >> >>At 10:54 PM 3/8/2011, Stan Zaske Poked the stick with: >>>There is no other choice to make a decent backup than to save your >>>irreplaceable data and just re-install. Backup software sucks! Backup >>>tape >>>drives suck! Norton Ghost sucks! There is no reliable method to backup >>>your hardrive other than to make an ISO of it and store it on an other >>>hardrive. Backups just plain suck period because the computer world >>>changes too fast and operating systems change too fast to make a >>>reliable >>>method that has legs! Get a second or third hardrive and a couple of 8 >>>or >>>16 gig thumb drives and save your irreplaceable info and just accept it. >>>I've been trying to find a reliable method to backup my data for years. >>>I >>>once spent a considerable sum of money on a tape drive that would not >>>work >>>period. Duplication of irreplaceble data is the only method that I've >>>found that saves my ass. I once had a daily log that I had updated >>>religiously for years and lost it all because my hardrive failed. That >>>data can never be replaced. It is gone forever. Still pissed about that! >>>LOL > > >-- >Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > >__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature >database 5940 (20110309) __________ > >The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > >http://www.eset.com > > -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Oh, no! Not another learning experience.
